The Northern Ireland hotel sector is close to recovering to pre-pandemic levels but is still struggling to find staff, industry body the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation (NIHF) said.
It called for support from government to upskill potential workers and a targeted loosening of immigration regulations to allow more staff from overseas come to Northern Ireland to work in the sector.
NIHF said there are around 1,000 positions vacant in the sector in Northern Ireland amongst the 146 hotels trading in the province.